tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252907392012-01-28T21:56:23.683-05:00YOUR ONE STOP FOR NO-HOLDS-BARRED POLITICAL DEBATE!Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-60832347832685906012011-12-24T20:58:00.001-05:002011-12-24T21:01:02.320-05:00

Merry Christmas!!! Uploaded by TeeWing on Oct 27, 2007 Lyrics: On my heavy metal Christmas my true love gave to me, a tattoo of Ozzy! On my heavy metal Christmas my true love gave to me, 2 pairs of spandex pants and a tattoo of Ozzy! On my heavy metal Christmas my true love gave to me, 3 studded belts 2 pairs of spandex pants and a tattoo of Ozzy! On my heavy metal Christmas my true

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-31771827131795549112011-11-24T17:17:00.001-05:002011-11-24T17:43:42.758-05:00

Strangely enough, even dry ol' Jersey McJones suffers from depression during the winter holidays.  Mind you, I know why I get depressed.  It's not the change of season, and I don't seek help for it or take happy pills to make it go away, because I don't want to forget why.  The holidays make me long for my youth - as it does for everyone.  I had a wonderful, lucky, happy childhood, with a big

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-37935831973400757422011-11-09T19:02:00.004-05:002011-11-09T20:19:17.161-05:00

(for the record, I am, in fact, a person)  What is personhood? Merriam-Webster employs a few key factors:  human, individual, guise, body, personality, self... A person is a multidimensional entity.  It is your body, your mind, and your individual traits and acts. Does a blastocyst have a mind?  A personality?  Thoughts?  Memories?  Could it have a guise? The religious right sees no point

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On the morning of 9/11... I was at my desk in a small, second floor, open office in a Secaucus, NJ, commercial complex. My personal extension rang.  It was my mother-in-law.  She told me that a plane had flown into one of the Twin Towers. I remember making some derogatory remark, like, "Yeah, some fuckin' idiot...," thinking some fuckin' idiot in a small plane flew too close to the buildings

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A New York Times piece yesterday, based on research for a new book on religion and politics in America, American Grace, reveals a few things about the Tea Party movement that many people, myself included, have long known.  Let the myth-busting begin! Myth #1:  The Tea Partiers are independent and non-partisan: Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes.

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Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's Republican debate: JMJ

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To Rick Perry and his inane "The Response."  To conservative evangelical Christians everywhere.  Read Matthew 6.  Really read it and really pay attention to it. From the American King James Version, formatted for this page: Matthew 6 1Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2Therefore when you

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-77835518395952857202011-08-01T23:14:00.000-04:002011-08-01T23:14:34.684-04:00

The President won a small victory by making a deal with the GOP to increase the debt limit. The GOP position, with this new BRAC-esque committee designed to propose nothing but cuts, is going to hurt them in the long run, and yet they voted ahead of the Dems in congress to pass it.  As Bernie Frank might say, 'Irony!' The House GOP just presented themselves the opportunity to cut the living

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People often talk of what our government should and shouldn't do. They tend to project their ideologies, needs, and wants on these demands. And so Hawks want a big military, and hawks vested in the military want it even more. And so Environmentalists want Green Energy, and Environmentalists vested in the Green Energy business want it even more. Meanwhile, even vest environmentalist hawks want the

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If there's one thing about Americans that really bothers me it's our hypocritical, uptight, sexual attitudes. We are among the most sexually active people in the world, and yet we are among the most hung-up about sex. It's a consequence of who we are. We are the descendents of boat people - of common, working poor. We are the descendents of people who fuck all week long and then go to church

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Ladies and gentleman, investors in the future... may I now present... The GREYCO Gecko! Just think of the opportunities here! If the Ryan Plan ever became law, fellow investors, a whole vast new market of health insurance consumers would be kicking down... er, uh, banging their wheelchairs against our doors for coverage! Just imagine it! We could be insuring tens of millions of people, on

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-54208238292814824742011-05-17T18:21:00.003-04:002011-05-17T18:37:43.672-04:00

Huckabee is out.Christie is out.Trump is out.Gingrich violated Reagan's 11th Commandment and so he very well may be already out.Palin is going nowhere nor hinting at a direction.Michele Bachmann is insane and the majority of voters know it.As for Ron Paul, there are only so many Ayn Rand fans at any given time.Meanwhile...Mitt Romney just raised ten million dollars in a single day.So far, and for

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-9539182943079641822011-05-08T22:41:00.002-04:002011-05-08T22:53:39.565-04:00

This is what I wish for Mothers Day (on the Mothers Day Star, Maternica, that emits Estro-Radiation throughout the universe...)May all moms live in a country that respects their right to work in a place free of harassment.May they earn the same money as a man working the same job.May they be respected in every way, regardless of how we men would prefer they behave.JMJ

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-3593067588624138702011-03-17T17:23:00.004-04:002011-03-17T17:51:44.210-04:00

This is the first of my posts for the 2012 election cycle. They will all be called Stupid Shit. They will be called Stupid Shit because I will narrowly focus on the none-issues, the pseudo-interlocutors, the lunatic fringe minstrel show, and call it what it is: Stupid Shit.Donald Trump is a Birther running for President???No and No? Yes and Yes?Oh God, who cares...I don't have the 400 hours at

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-23764179125360337212011-03-13T22:05:00.005-04:002011-03-13T22:44:12.298-04:00

The Tygrrrr Express wrote a great piece today about the NFL lockout. He offers substantive ideas to bring the matter to a head. But he finishes with this poignant message to Roger Goodell:"The National Football League is bigger and better than ever. Roger Goodell is presiding over the most successful sports empire in sports history. He inherited a gift from Pete Rozelle and Paul Tagliabue. He

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-82828855601241605752011-03-11T21:52:00.004-05:002011-03-11T23:17:30.416-05:00

Obama gave a press conference today in the midst of numerous major disasters and conflagrations around the world and at home. Here's crazy Andrew Malcolm's take, along with the text. Malcolm's actually not too far off into Loony-Anti-Lefty-Land. It's an interesting read."First and foremost, our thoughts and our prayers are with the people of Japan." First and foremost, Obama needs to give another

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-80995277683764606812011-03-09T18:10:00.004-05:002011-03-09T20:38:33.712-05:00

The Blogo-cons, like those at the Daily Caller, are pouring accolades on David Broder today, with his passing. They all praise his unbiased journalism. I wonder why they don't expect more from Fox.Peter King was pro-IRA. Maybe we should start investigating Irish-Americans! Oops. Forget that. (Shhh... I'm Irish too...)Newt Gingrich loved his Christian country so much, his balls actually

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One of four things has happened here: Someone Pat Robertson knows has a kid who was busted with weed; God Himself Told Pat Robertson To End The Pot War; Pat Robertson has discovered Secular Humanism; or finally, just maybe, just per chance, Pat Robertson, of all people, realizes the pyrrhic futility of the war on pot, and the hypocrisy of economic deregulation without a commensurate social

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There's a very good reason the Korean War is known as the "Forgotten War:" it was a bloody, miserable affair, that shook the American mind to the stem. By the end of the war, the great General MacArthur's name was reduced to that of a conspiratorial quack, and the Red Scare spread like a mental plague. Eisenhower went from boring, Pre-9/11 Bushesque, to hero of rational leadership, only to spend

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-90019384336730288212010-11-25T17:22:00.006-05:002010-11-25T17:50:36.670-05:00

Now that's my kinda turkey, baby!On Thanksgiving we all give Thanks for being lucky enough to be born Americans and not, say, Somalis. Conservatives thank God for allowing them to try to make America more like Somalia, and Liberals thank their lucky stars Conservatives haven't quite succeeded... yet. On this Thanksgiving, I've decided to both buck tradition while maintaining it: I'm thankful

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-41731081532358845972010-11-13T18:34:00.006-05:002010-11-13T19:11:27.223-05:00

It's very simple:1) Most people, at any given moment, are healthy. Many people are not very empathetic, nor forward-looking. That's why so many people were against health care reform: they were healthy but lacked sufficient empathy and imagination to support such a necessary reform.2) As time goes by, everyone gets sick or injured, or intimately knows someone who gets sick or injured. As time

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Well, most of the results are in. The Democrats will retain the Senate (surprisingly with up to 54 seats), but the losses in the House were heavy - historically heavy. With 218 needed for a majority, the Republicans already have 239 squared away, with 12 still up in the air. most governorships and state houses are now firmly in GOP hands. Even among the ballots initiatives, referendums and

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Of all the elections I have ever witnessed, this is by far the silliest. I can't help but recall...If only Gilliam, Jones, Cleese, Idle, Chapman, and Palin (well there is that one Palin...) were together today to cover this year's mid-terms. They wouldn't even have to write a skit. Gilliam could just put up the crazy caricatures and play the crazy tapes.#5: Sean Duffy! That's right, you heard it!

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A Picture of a ScumbagEveryone knows the ol' expression, "I know it when I see it," Justice Potter Stewart's famous observation on pornography. It's been used and abused, colloquially, bandied about political rhetoric, interminably over the years. Relativistic variations on the theme - be it in the name of "common sense," or "traditional values," or even "national security" - have unfortunately

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Really? What the hell is happening here?My good blogger-friend Eric Golub, aka Tygrrrr Express, popular Republican writer and speaker, regularly reminds us that the GOP is the party of the "adults," "logical," "mature." Yet this year the GOP, in races throughout the country, have been nominating IDIOTS, LUNATICS, and CROOKS. All this seems to have stemmed from the most irresponsible

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When my wife and I lived in New Jersey, we lived in the NY metropolitan area. My wife's parents, however, lived in west Jersey, about and hour and a half drive down the I-80 corridor. Occasionally she would drive out to see her folks while I stayed behind. I remember always worrying - pacing around the house during her commutes back and forth - about her safety on that dangerous stretch of

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-12190951242484538112010-09-13T18:27:00.004-04:002010-09-13T18:56:30.733-04:00

The Right, especially the religious Right, often exclaims that the Left has no principles. They say Liberals morally equivocate at every turn, that we lack some morality of absolute truth and so instead rely completely on pure individual relativism in terms of morals and ethics.This is a serious misunderstanding at best, and often just a plain ol' lie.Though I find them sometimes rather specious,

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Well, it's another 9/11. Another day of Rightwing Reactionary Rabble-Rousers wrapping themselves in the flag and calling for more war on the entire Islamic world. Another day of "with us or against us," "bring it on," "never forget," bla bla bla.I was over at the Tygrrrr Express, my favorite Republican blog, and sure enough, as I expected, there was another 9/11 post with the same ol' refrain..."

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Winner of the 2010 Most Pandering Slogan of the Year award(Last year's winner was "Anti-Child Molestation / Pro-Child Molestation, Which are You?") Oh God, that slogan, "cut taxes and kill terrorists," and its variations (lower taxes and dead terrorists, etc), is soooo friggin' vacuous. I wish Republicans and conservatives would realize there's a large segment of the population just utterly

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In a wonderful piece by Thomas Shultz for Speigel, we get an outside look in at America in crisis. 30 years of "Trickle-Down," Supply-Side economics is effectively destroying the middle class in America, creating a stratified, two-tiered society of the very wealthy and the very poor.While America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-59967439340310084512010-08-27T21:28:00.001-04:002010-08-27T21:28:48.891-04:00

Glenn Beck Wants You!Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally tomorrow, with its expected half-a-million people or so, is so completely and fully an Anti-Civil-Rights, Nativist, Christian/Objectivist Circus Maximus that I just can't imagine having to be bothered to explain why to even the most simple and stupid person.The date. The location. The reverse, distorted emulsification of the Civil Rights

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...REPUBLICAN MADNESS - or - How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the StupidityAcross4. 45% of Republicans are ________5. More than 2/3rds of Republicans believe Obama is a _________Down1. 24% of Republicans think Obama may be the __________2. 57% of Republicans think Obama is a ______3. 38% of Republicans think Obama is doing many of the things ______ didThank you WP's Post Partisan for your

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Need more proof?Yeah, I know, a new poll shows that some 18% of Americans think Obama is a Muslim.But let's take a closer look...15% recently polled by Rasmussen think it's likely the healthcare bill will be repealed. Good luck with that.Half of Americans, according to CNN/ORP, think we should change the 14th Amendment to exclude children born of undocumented workers (re: slave labor - ironically

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-59192038379208988232010-08-12T22:20:00.016-04:002010-08-14T23:39:49.301-04:00

From NBC's First Read:The GOP has a HUGE generic-ballot edge in the South (52%-31%), but it doesn’t lead anywhere else. In the Northeast, Dems have a 55%-30% edge; in the Midwest, they lead 49%-38%; and in the West, it’s 44%-43%.Ladies and gentlemen, we have a problem.There should be no doubt whatsoever left in anybody's mind that not only are we not living a "post-racial" America, we're not even

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-88693604327595136382010-08-09T16:40:00.004-04:002010-08-09T18:26:35.878-04:00

In a paradoxical twist of historical, political etymology, today in America to be a big-R Republican is to be a small-d democrat, and to be a big-D Democrat is to be a small-r republican. In a further twist of history, to be called an "Activist judge" is to be a constitutionally responsible jurist. There are two issues today that point up these odd political ironies. One is the recent ruling on

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Joe Klein, I thought, had a very thoughtful piece, Monday, on the Waters and Rangel scandals - "... Rangel and Waters are exemplars of the greatest problem facing our Congress--and therefore our democracy--which is the high-tech gerrymandering of safe seats on both sides of the aisle. That is why they don't give a fig about the Democratic Party's fate in the fall. They haven't had to trim their

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-29031431979321919362010-07-24T22:52:00.005-04:002010-07-25T15:47:21.545-04:00

From Merriam-Webster:Main Entry: fa·nat·ic Pronunciation: \fə-ˈna-tik\Variant(s): or fa·nat·i·cal \-ti-kəl\Function: adjective Etymology: Latin fanaticus inspired by a deity, frenzied, from fanum temple — more at feastDate: 1550: marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion (they're fanatic about politics)Emphasis mine.Today, President Obama, making his regular Saturday

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Just in case anyone out there didn't already know this, let me say again - ANDREW BREITBART IS A LIAR. He should not be taken seriously by anyone anymore, unless they are taking him seriously as a LIAR. He is a LIAR. A low-down, dirty, no-good LIAR. Someone should tie Breitbart down in the mud, and then have Shirley Sherrod take a shit on his face. One more time: ANDREW BREITBART IS A

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While 9/11 was exploited to bring us two bloody, expensive (and profitable, for some) quagmires overseas, in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new quagmire at home has begun being exposed today by the Washington Post with it's extensive investigative report, two years in the making, Top Secret America. In the first part of the expose, A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control, we learn right off the bat:*

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We all know there are a lot of Fringe-Left celebs running around out there. I think part of it is that they realize how lucky they have it and just feel like they have to give back somehow. Karma. Sure, I'm sure most of them put in a lot of hard work, but let's face it - becoming a movie star, or a model, or a rock star, or a professional athlete, does take a ton of luck. You have to have certain

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Below is my response to the Tygrrrr Express's defense of the Tea Party from the recent NAACP proclamation that there is a serious racist element among them (I went ahead and corrected my spelling errors without notation): The problem with the Tea Party - something most conservatives refuse to acknowledge - is it is heavily colored by Nativist and Nationalist Populism, which can be very dangerous

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-8739052952135486872010-07-15T22:15:00.003-04:002010-07-15T22:20:10.735-04:00

Here's an old, recorded song of mine from "back in the day." (I have to do something while I'm laid-up!)JMJ

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Could the '010 mid-term look like 1994 all over again? Robert Gibbs suggested as much today at a press conference. From the AP:Democrats now hold a 255-178 edge in the House, with two vacancies in the 435-member chamber. Anywhere from 40 to perhaps 60 House seats could be competitive by the fall. Republicans would need to take back about 40 seats to slip into the majority, placing the current GOP

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(Arizona... people want to live here?)The worst and most dangerous kind of criminal law is one written only with politics in mind. Such is Arizona's SB1070, the "Show US Your Papers" law, as some of us call it. This is a law that panders to the worst in most of us. SB1070 is a very popular bill. Republicans around the country will be running on support for that Arizona bill, proposing it for

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"Gay," in the sense that I bet he's a very happy person. A very happy, honest, giddy sort of a cartoonish village idiot. Michael Steele expressed something very telling about the way Republicans are attacking President Obama - blame every mess the GOP made during the past decade on him."Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-60081045822056090432010-07-04T14:17:00.005-04:002010-07-04T14:37:44.089-04:00

Conservatives really enjoy celebrating national holidays. It makes them feel all patriotic inside. So, they hop in their gas-guzzlers and cruise on down to the Walmart to buy a pile of fireworks made by children in China and shoot them off illegally while the law ignores them. I have no problem with fireworks, but if people are going to flaunt the law, then why have it? These same sleazy

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This is the text of a handy little "cheat cheat" offered by the ACLU:WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE STOPPED BY POLICE, IMMIGRATION AGENTS OR THE FBIYOUR RIGHTS• You have the right to remain silent. If you wish to exercise that right, say so out loud.• You have the right to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, your car or your home.• If you are not under arrest, you have the right to calmly leave.•

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So, will Obama get immigration on the front burner for the 2010 elections? He's trying.The GOP/conservative position is completely unrealistic and incompatible and they know it and the rest of us know it. All they have now is obstinacy. They erased all the regional gains they made with the Hispanic vote over the years. Nativistism has crept into their argument and now controls it. Jewish voters

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I want my America Back!!!For those of you on the Right who are stupid enough to sling around terms like "liberal elite," you should remember what "elite" really means. "Elite" is more than just an attitude. It's more than just a status. It's more than just money. "Elite" is the ability to create a culture wherein that money and status and attitude are sheltered, defended

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-14634612748181565732010-06-28T16:48:00.004-04:002010-06-28T17:06:37.195-04:00

Well, the SCOTUS upheld itself today...From the Examiner:In 2008 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller, but in that case the issue in front of the court was the city's ban on hand guns while allowing rifles and shotguns, and since D.C. is a Federal jurisdiction, they did not explore whether or not the Second Amendment applied to municipal or

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-72338752573713317602010-06-28T11:20:00.004-04:002010-06-28T14:16:07.154-04:00

With the passing today of Robert Byrd, America loses one of the great champions of our constitutional democracy. A fierce defender of the separations and demarcations of power, Byrd was perhaps the last of the pre-Unitary Executive federal politicians. And this gets to an interesting aspect of the Byrd legacy, as we also lost a perfect metaphor for the modern history of our country, our republic,

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-77189779953781117192010-06-25T00:05:00.005-04:002010-06-25T00:27:36.624-04:00

I was over at the Tygrrrr Express debating with conservatives, a practice I highly recommend, when something occured to me..."McChrystal may be a bit of a loon, but he’s obviously no idiot. He must’ve known what was coming out of that story. What? He never heard of Rolling Stone? Did he think they were a branch of NewsCorp? C’mon. HE was FAILING to carry out HIS plan in Afghanistan. He was the

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-27200120949754185332010-06-23T19:21:00.005-04:002010-06-25T00:25:45.747-04:00

Remember healthcare reform? Well, you probably weren't thinking much about it today, what with all the McChrystal nonsense (Obama got rid of General Ripper. That's all you really need to know), but today the Commonwealth Fund released its latest healthcare rankings of Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Take a wild guess who ranked

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-43728828917583361442010-06-21T13:54:00.003-04:002010-06-21T15:41:33.064-04:00

Authoritarian, Police State, Imperial conservatives (re: all conservatives) have won a major victory today in their War on America. The Supreme Court has ruled part of the Alien and Sedition..., I mean, Patriot Act that bars "material support" to any person or thing that could even vaguely be tangentially involved in terrorism is constitutional. Though this was a victory for the Obama

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-59302225439095680372010-06-19T21:31:00.007-04:002010-06-19T22:20:08.159-04:00

There are plenty of contradictions regarding the Tea Party - they want government out of healthcare / but leave their medicare alone, no more "too big to fail" / no more regulations, less taxes / less debt, clean up the oil / leave BP alone - but the greatest contradiction of them all is now reaching it's hideous conclusion: the Tea Party is destroying democracy itself.The original Boston tea

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-40753187900203477182010-06-18T18:03:00.007-04:002010-06-19T21:29:39.646-04:00

Ewwwwwww....Jan Brewer is upset that Hillary Clinton broke the news in Equador today that the adminstration is planning on suing Arizona over it's new Immigrant Slavery Law.From the NYT:“This is no way to treat the people of Arizona,” the governor said in a statement. “To learn of this lawsuit through an Ecuadorean interview with the Secretary of State is just outrageous. If our own government

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-3015029438079298702010-06-15T23:30:00.003-04:002010-06-15T23:44:13.674-04:00

Just when you'd think that Afghanistan couldn't be any more of a nightmarish shithole, huge new mineral deposits worth an estimated trillion dollars have been discovered under it's war torn hellscape. Jon Stewart tonight summed up Afghanistan's new situation quite well when he suggested to the Afghan people that they probably "move out" now.The last thing Afghanistan needed was a reason for

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-91935233190733322672010-06-12T22:18:00.003-04:002010-06-12T22:30:07.915-04:00

I was flipping around the dial today, when I noticed Mike Huckabee doing a show on home-spun remedies for the Gulf Oil Spill. He was light-hearted and flippant. I said to the image of Huckabee on the tube, "Shut the fuck up!" If I was standing there in person, I would have said the same thing.Really, will all you rightwingers complaining about the Obama administration's handling of the Gulf Oil

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-14457097928162165872010-06-11T18:09:00.008-04:002010-06-11T19:18:14.910-04:00

From AP via MSNBC:Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a Republican-backed bill that would have required women seeking a first-trimester abortion to pay for an ultrasound exam and, with few exceptions, view the image or have it described to them by their doctor.Charlie Christ dealt a blow to the Religious Right today, but he also showed his hand in the 2010 Mid-terms: Charlie is running to the Middle.At a

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-39882857364291634962010-06-09T21:14:00.009-04:002010-06-10T12:14:56.073-04:00

With the big election night Tuesday for Tea Party favorites like Sharron "Chicken Lady" Angle and Nikki "Let's Hope There Ain't Any Pictures" Haley (too bad about Orly "70's Porn Starlet" Taitz), the HMS Rightwingnut has the wind in it's sails, and it's sailing directly to stern.So, let's all go to Tennessee - shots on me!From WSMV Nashville:In a few weeks, permit holders will once again be able

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-34215066020845172172010-06-09T21:04:00.002-04:002010-06-09T21:05:36.905-04:00

Full coverage of last night's primary elections:JMJ

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-13947764538356264542010-06-08T22:25:00.010-04:002010-06-08T23:02:18.269-04:00

So far the Tea Partiers seem to be doing pretty well this primary Tuesday. That's great news for the Democrats! Bad news for nation's average IQ!In SC, Nikki Haley seems sure to win the nom after a run-off, let's just hope Mark Sanford doesn't invite her on a victory trip to Argentina! Looks like Jerry Springer will be moving his set down to Columbia - South Carolina!We're all counting on CA's

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-10855852401699841252010-06-07T17:52:00.003-04:002010-06-07T20:28:25.225-04:00

If you were to check Google News right now, you'd see over 2,000 stories on the two terror suspects caught by the FBI and NYPD last week. Check Google Blogs and this story doesn't even appear until page eight. Of the 84 blogs (the Helen Thomas story has 354) with mentions of the story, perhaps 10 are from the Rightwing, and those pretty much just pass the story without opinion.It seems the "War

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-86550681359746022532010-06-06T20:17:00.004-04:002010-06-06T21:09:46.339-04:00

If you were to Google News Helen Thomas today, boy you would get a long list of hits - "Anti-Semite," "Liberal Eruptions," "Helen Thomas to be Fired," "Racist Rant," and on and on. It's coming from Right and Left and the Middle. Thomas is being pilloried across the board. Why?She said the Jewish Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine."I think many people, maybe even most, have at one time

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-90226316478228067882010-06-04T21:34:00.004-04:002010-06-04T22:28:01.093-04:00

Just as for Righties an "Activist Judge" is any judge who makes a decision they don't like, be it correctly constitutional or not, the "Self-Hating Jew" is any Jew who ever dares to criticize anything Israel ever does - or more specifically, anything rightwing Likud-type Israelis ever do.Following the bungled raid on the Mavi Marmara by Israel, Barney Frank was doing the rounds on the news

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-45469107424624961612010-06-03T19:42:00.010-04:002010-06-04T00:10:32.937-04:00

The GOP strategy regarding illegal immigration - and slaverySo, today Jan Brewer, the all-too-happily controversial Arizona governor, met with Obama to discuss illegal immigration. Not surprisingly, "(s)he said she got no commitments from Obama other than a promise of better communication," according to the LA Times. I'm sure she got exactly what she wanted.Obama, along with most decent human

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-73894432368659382462010-06-02T19:43:00.004-04:002010-06-02T20:37:59.838-04:00

Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu said, "our naval personnel had no choice but to board these vessels," regarding the bloody, and in my opinion bungled, boarding of the Mavi Marmara.I'm sure he's right about one thing - the navy personnel had no choice. They just follow their orders. But Netanyahu? Did he have a choice?Netanyahu's American background may explain his blunt,

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-54668120007234106872010-06-01T19:28:00.004-04:002010-06-01T19:35:01.677-04:00

Like deregulation? Think that solves all our problems? Well, thank you. You fucked up the Gulf Coast for decades. Thanks. Scumbags.The government's startling helplessness in the face of unprecedented disaster is the direct result of our decades of deregulation.Let the animals run the zoo and see how many people want to come visit anymore. Fuckin' morons.JMJ

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-31824794336842573372010-05-30T13:49:00.005-04:002010-05-30T14:14:34.348-04:00

Here's a study from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of California, Davis."In a nutshell, we found that risk attraction was more prevalent among the Wealthy when the amounts of money at risk were small; but risk attraction was more prevalent among Nonwealthy for the larger amounts of money at risk."Many studies on Risk Attraction and Risk Aversion have shown the same results: the

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-84718256385129921672010-05-29T09:35:00.005-04:002010-05-29T13:16:06.848-04:00

When we look at the circumstances of illegal immigration in America today, most Americans have their usual simplistic take on the matter - these immigrants are here illegally, therefore they are criminals, they are taking our jobs and reducing our wages, we should deport them, we should secure the border, we should build a fence between Mexico and America, etc.Let's look at each point..."Illegal"

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-62729533647173903672010-05-27T20:23:00.009-04:002010-05-27T21:11:13.271-04:00

So, have you heard of the Better Marriage Blanket, the flatulence fighting fleece that absorbs your vapors before they float you into divorce court? They should come up with a tape you could just stick over your orifice, and you could be fart-free all day! Well, here's some similar ideas to make our lives better and our relationships more agreeable!Ideologue Tape!Is that pesky ideology of yours

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-67045671792313203392010-05-26T19:31:00.009-04:002010-05-27T19:15:08.111-04:00

Gee Andy... what if WE cleaned up the oil???1. If Sestak was offered a a quid pro quo - to drop out of the race for an administration job - the White House should fall on it's sword and cough it up (how's that for ugly mixed metaphors?). Then push for a new campaign finance reform bill which should ostensibly please GOP senators who said the Sestak affair is "very serious and, if true, suggest(s)

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-21940666334249421512010-05-25T21:16:00.008-04:002010-05-25T23:39:15.883-04:00

Kayfabe McMahon: "Real (healthcare) reform must address the problem of rising costs."Genuine McMahon: Had the WWE wrestlers classified as "independent contractors" so that the company did not have to pay for benefits.Kayfabe McMahon: "The 'Culture of Bailouts' must end."Genuine McMahon: Arranged massive tax breaks for the WWE in Connecticut.Kayfabe McMahon: "Deficit spending must end."Genuine

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-25318538994556679672010-05-24T20:46:00.004-04:002010-05-24T20:52:04.396-04:00

A Rasmussen Report poll today showed that some 63% of Americans would support a repeal of the healthcare reform bills passed this year. I wonder if there's that level of support for repealing Medicare, or Social Security. Somehow I doubt it.This gets to an unfortunately reality in regard to the healthcare issue: at any given time, most people are healthy, but at most times, most people are

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-78881269445702978422010-05-24T19:03:00.005-04:002010-05-24T20:53:52.343-04:00

I just have one simple little question:Given the disasterous enormity of the BP oil spill, and given that for all our drilling the price of gas is barely effected, is it really worth to deep-sea drill for oil off our coasts?JMJ

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-71837951043301635242010-05-23T14:43:00.009-04:002010-05-23T18:39:18.296-04:00

Rightwing bloggers are giggling with girlie glee at the special election of Republican Charles Djou as representative of Hawaii's 1st congressional district - Obama's home district from his youth. He took the seat vacated by the retired Neil Abercrombie, one of the greatest congressmen in our history. It all seems eerily reminiscent of the election of Norm Coleman after the untimely demise of one

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-26584536936060366032010-05-22T19:39:00.007-04:002010-05-22T20:00:10.184-04:00

The Three Bigot Stooges - Tom Tancredo, William Gheen, and Daniel SmeriglioYa' just can't make stuff like this up...From the Colorado Independent:Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is openly squabbling with former Colorado Congressman and anti-illegal immigration warrior Tom Tancredo over white-power associations ALIPAC says are tainting efforts to organize rallies in support of Arizona’s tough

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-82898753921040019692010-05-21T20:05:00.004-04:002010-05-21T20:35:53.795-04:00

Here's a few snippets from the new Texas School Board Curriculum Standards - and let me be the first to say, good for them! It's about time the TRUTH be told about American history!The Confederacy won the War of Northern Aggression, but graciously rejoined the Union immediately after because Lincoln was a Republican, the party that best represents the interests of the Southern man.Conservatives

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-3402579892153583682010-05-20T20:18:00.010-04:002010-05-20T21:18:55.930-04:00

The other day I wondered "if these conservative, religious-right Christians know what they're getting into with Objectivists." I could also have added, "I wonder if the Republican Party knows what it's getting into with the Tea Party." After all, it was the Teabaggers movement that put Christian/Objectivist Rand Paul in the Kentucky, US Senate, race. Well, now they all should full well know what

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-91563640690831877402010-05-19T19:22:00.003-04:002010-05-19T21:34:02.814-04:00

1)Keep it in your pants…or…2) Be like me and admit upfront you like to ball women. It is not the sex. It is the hypocrisy. Do not run on a family values platform if you are going to be a letch. This is influential, neoconservative, Republican writer/speaker/blogger, eric (small "e") of the Tygrrrr Express referring to the recent GOP sex-scandal-debacle in Indiana.GOOD FOR HIM!!!It's about time a

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-68471386563756269202010-05-18T20:40:00.007-04:002010-05-18T21:55:38.381-04:00

Rand Paul won the Republican senate primary in Kentucky today. Yesterday, I was over at Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs site, when I noticed a post that used the spelling "G-d," and old Jewish way of referring to God. I asked, "Why would Objectivists employ a religious term like "G-d?" A commenter responded, "The belief that name of G-d should not be spelled out comes to us from Orthodox Judaism. If

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-78616175065923073042010-05-16T22:49:00.009-04:002010-05-16T23:17:34.817-04:00

This is a seed...And this is a tree...This is an embryo...And this is a baby...Get it? I was over at Beleifnet when I picked up on a commenter argument about the nature of the "pro-choice" position. As is often the case, one side was completely missing the premise of the other. If you want to argue with someone, at least understand their argument!I wrote...I think there's a fundamental

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-2059066601788796542010-05-16T12:51:00.006-04:002010-05-16T13:31:47.903-04:00

(...even though he never expressed a political affiliation, voted for JFK, and was highly critical of Barry Goldwater, a founder of modern Republican conservatism) Another Black Conservative (there's another one?) urges us to "Visit SecuretheBorder.org and sign the petition to demand Obama does his job and secure our southern border." So, I click on securetheborder.org, a new Sarah Palin/Jan

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-21178770724369250462010-05-15T19:08:00.009-04:002010-05-16T10:42:23.958-04:00

I've been in a complete state of mental drought for long time now. That's officially over. Now I really am back because I just can't take it any more! And do you know what it took to bring me back to the world of blogging? A fuckin' idiot.Friday, Sarah "Death Panel" Palin, the reigning Clown Queen of Conservatism, spoke to the Susan B. Anthony List, a group who's only interest in women's suffrage

Jersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25290739.post-12773721892541781022009-10-03T19:26:00.002-04:002009-10-03T19:31:10.019-04:00

I had to shut down the "Jersey McJones" for a variety of personal and professional reasons for quite a while. But I have discovered that I can now prudently return to the blogosphere. Starting Monday, October 5, 2009, Jersey McJones officially returns to talking politics, culture, religion, sociology and philosopy online, though it will be a week more before I return to my more ascerbic side (

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